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Great day at the Summer Latin Institute. Selfishly speaking. Because I got to teach Catullus 13, the first unedited, unadapted, unaltered, complete work of Latin literature our students have read from beginning to end with comprehension (all 14 lines of Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 9, 6:45 p.m.
I did learn from my mistakes (see yesterday’s blog post). This morning in drill I got through all of my sentences, finished right on time, and included appropriate drills on yesterday’s third-declension noun morphology and indirect statement syntax. One student Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 8, 7:18 p.m.
I’m going slightly rogue right now. Ideally I should be hovering outside the doors of the classrooms where the second hour of morning drills is taking place, learning how to be a better teacher by observing my colleagues. Instead, I Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 7, 10:55 a.m.
DAY 6 was yesterday, June 18, 2012. It was the day of our first weekly exam, covering Units 1-4. Thus, a 3-hour test on the equivalent of one month of college Latin (arguably more) learned in one week. The exam Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 6
Sunday, June 16—Father’s Day, Bloomsday, and my first Sunday off from the Summer Latin Institute. There is an optional 2-hour review session at the Graduate Center this afternoon for students who want additional support in advance of tomorrow’s first weekly Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Weekend 1B
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Today is my first day off from the Summer Latin Institute. Slept till after 8:00 a.m. Yesterday, DAY 5, included morning drills as usual, and optional lunchtime grammar review and sight reading as usual, but no new grammar in the Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Weekend 1A
Sipping coffee on my first Institute Friday morning. I made it. Our students made it. Here we are. No new morphology or syntax today. Morning drills followed by an afternoon review of all Week 1 material, Units 1-4, in preparation Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 5, 6:23 a.m.
Just spent about 45 minutes in my office at the Graduate Center drilling second declension nouns, first-second declension adjectives, and noun-adjective agreement with a student, then moving on to sequence of tenses, relative time, purpose clauses and indirect commands. Our Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 4, 9:19 a.m.
Floyd Moreland’s genius, 40 years ago, was to put Latin grammar together like a jigsaw puzzle in which pieces of morphology alternated with pieces of syntax, and heavy morphology days alternated with light morphology days. So, while we slammed our Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 4, 6:44 a.m.